From The A-J's Pages

Posted: March 23, 2012 - 12:22am

Parents, grandparents and children all enjoy a shopping trip to Chad’s Rainbow, 5102 60th St., in the Quorum Shopping Center. Every item in this unique toy store is designed to provide a learning experience as well as a play experience for children of all ages, including those with learning disabilities or physical limitations.

50 years ago:

Learning to meet the public gracefully and with poise is one of the first and sometimes, one of the most difficult skills to be mastered by the beginning worker. Distributive education students agree — but are not dismayed. They are learning by actual experience that the “best way to learn how to swim is to jump in the water.” Students attribute their gain in salesmanship and self-confidence to the special training and supervision received from teachers and employers in distributive education, a vocational training program in Lubbock public schools.

75 years ago:

Santa Fe, NM – Clyde Tingley, New Mexico’s bluff, jovial governor, resolved today that he “ain’t gonna quit saying ain’t.” Being in a “vetoing mood” at the close of the state legislature, he said he would veto the suggestion of a “certain school teacher” that he reform his grammar. Just to convince himself that “ain’t” is a proper word, the governor said he had “some brain trusters” check up on the origin. “They traced it back to the Revolutionary War,” he said “and that’s far enough for me. Besides being a good old American word, it’s a very handy one.”

100 years ago:

Acuff — J.T. Brown has been selling considerable grain lately to men of Lubbock.